Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Reply-To: From: "Francis Litterio" To: Subject: RE: cp -p fails with .exe files Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:43:53 -0400 Message-ID: <000701c0fa60$989b4190$4500f98c@EMMAROSE> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <200106191703.SAA04976@trillian.uk.aonix.com> Cliff Hones wrote: > Cygwin cp is ".exe" aware - meaning that "cp xxx yyy" will copy xxx.exe to > yyy.exe if xxx.exe exists (and xxx does not). But "cp -p xxx yyy" fails - > it does the copy then reports that it is unable to preserve the time for "yyy". This may be related (I see it in 1.3.1): bash$ rm -f foo bar foo.exe bar.exe # Just to start clean. bash$ touch foo.exe bash$ cp foo bar cp: `foo' and `bar' are the same file Apologies if this has been brought up before. -- Francis Litterio franl@world.std.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple